We enjoyed the Opening Ceremonies on September 6th and hope that many of you were able to see the amazing show on CBC. They were absolutely incredible and inspiring! Our pictures will never do them justice, but we will post them once we have more time.
Our days have now become very busy and we are writing this on a tight timeline before heading to our second day of competition. The competition this time around is very fierce… everyone has stepped up their game and every game is a challenge.
The update, for those of you who are following is…
We won our first game against a girl from Greece by a score of 9-1. We played a second game against Armando Costa from Portugal – a very strong player – and although we played a great game he came out ahead with a score of 5-3. The exciting part about this game, aside from the game itself of course, was that it was taped and shown on a large screen in the venue as well as on Chinese TV. This is a huge step for boccia, as they showed instant replays and generated more interest in our sport.
Today we play the last game in the pool play against Yolanda Marten from Spain. She is also a tough competitor and we are sure that we will have to be at our best to win. Fortunately, we are at our best and we are ready to do what we need to do to move out of our pool and into the semi-finals. In order to advance, assuming that Costa wins his game against the Greek girl, we will have to win our game and also score as many points as possible, in hopes of getting one of two wild card spots. These spots are decided based on the point differential in each game played… whoever has the most points will advance.
The rest of the Canadian boccia team results are as follows:
Brock Richardon won 1 game and lost 2 close games
Hanif Mawji won 1 game and lost 2 games
Tammy McLeod won 1 game and lost 1 game
Adam Dukovich won 2 games
Alison Kabush won 1 game and lost 1 game
Monica Martino won 1 game and lost 1 game
Keep cheering for the Canadians!! We’ll update again as soon as we can.
Here’s a reminder about the live internet coverage:
Live coverage of the Paralympic Games
Beijing, China – The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has been officially confirmed that a minimum of eight hours per day of live commentated coverage of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games will be broadcasted on IPC’s internet TV channel:
Beijing Olympic Broadcasting Co., Ltd (BOB), host broadcaster of the Paralympic Games, will
provide live signals of ten Paralympic sports including Athletics, Boccia, Cycling (Track), Judo, Table Tennis, Volleyball(Sitting), Wheelchair Basketball, Wheelchair Fencing, Wheelchair Rugby, and Wheelchair Tennis.
The official programme of ParalympicSport.TV will have an interesting mixture of the aforementioned sports, with additional daily highlights provided as video on-demand. The daily highlights will also include those sports that are not covered in the live stream. SIXTY Seconds™, the daily news show presented by Paralympian Ambassador Chris Waddell, will wrap up the
latest Paralympic Games News. It will be available on the main channel at www.ParalympicSport.TV , as well as on the YouTube Channel of ParalympicSport.TV at www.youtube.com/paralympicsporttv .
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Hi, Paul and Sarah,
All of us here at BC Paraplegic Association are very proud of you. We are sending very positive energy to you and your teammates for your next games.
Melanie